Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist's Way HomeWhile the story will forever be fiercely hers, Getting Dressed in the Dark opens a mirror or portal between D'Italia and her reader, inviting in all those attempting vulnerable journeys of discovery and creative birthings of their own. In each faceted chapter, D'Italia varyingly...
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Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia"This heartfelt debut study from journalist Barth offers a window into Silicon Valley's homeless encampments . . . [An] up-close, multifaceted representation of an unhoused community." --Publishers Weekly In his first book, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on an immersive journey deep...
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From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully...
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Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam VetWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.'s memoir is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. Raised in the shadow...
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Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth'A fabulous look at the world's most indispensable machines and the most vital company you've never heard of.' - Ben Cohen, Wall Street Journal 'Marc Hijink provides an unparalleled analysis of ASML's extraordinary rise.' - Chris Miller, author of Chip war.For decades the most...
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Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took FlightBased on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American pilot to fight for her right to fly. Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail with her plane . . . Before she performed...
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis JohnsonThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His second wife left him. He didn't...
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination." --Chicago Sun-Times On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a...
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Finding My Way: A MemoirA USA TODAY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK "A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority's coming of age." --The New York Times This is not the story you think you know. It's the one I've been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the...
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Finding My Pole Star: Memoir of an American hero's life of faithful military service and as an active business and community leaderDecember 17, 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the kidnapping of then Brigadier General James Lee Dozier in Verona, Italy by Red Brigade terrorists. Dozier was held captive for 42 days before being rescued by a special operations team -- a news story that...
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Fifty-Six CountiesMontana has a long and celebrated tradition of artful, reflective nonfiction. From Joseph Kinsey Howard's Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome to K. Ross Toole's Montana: An Uncommon Land, we've been gifted with a series of erudite and sharp-eyed guides to help show us who...
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Evil on the Roof of the World: A Cycling Trip That Ended in TerrorOn a bleak highway in the mountains of Tajikistan known as "the roof of the world", in July of 2018, Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, along with two other cyclists, were brutally murdered by five ISIS terrorists.They were both Georgetown University graduates who had...
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Elvis Style: From Zoot Suits to JumpsuitsElvis Style is a celebration of the aesthetic world of Elvis Presley. As one of the most significant pop icons of the 20th century, Elvis' impact on the music world has been widely discussed and analysed. Surprisingly, however, his influence on design and fashion...
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Eat, Drink, and Remarry: Memories from a Lifetime of Art, Class, and Southern CharmIn this enchanting memoir, Patricia Altschul, the "dowager countess" (The New York Times) of Bravo's Southern Charm, reveals the exciting adventures of a storied life--from working as an academic and art dealer to her three marriages, to her star turn on the show--offering candid...
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Drum from the HeartWhen he is gifted a handmade drum by his mother, Ren learns the teachings of the drum that she also passes down to him. Ren discovers that through this special drum, he is able to connect to his culture and find confidence in his...
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Dropped NamesNew York Times Bestseller"This uncommonly eloquent book is enjoyable for the panoply of great names who turn up. . . . A natural raconteur, [Mr. Langella] seems to fit precisely Henry James's famous description of the novelist as one 'on whom nothing is lost.'...
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Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original CynicThe life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism--"a rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness" (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra) In his own day, the...
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Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso SchomburgExamines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.A Black Puerto Rican-born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
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Defiant Hope: Essays on Life, Faith, and FreedomExplore the influential writings of George W. Bush's speechwriter Michael Gerson, a key figure in the compassionate conservative movement, renowned for his Christian engagement and advocacy as a defender of the poor and marginalized communities. It is not an exaggeration to say that Michael...
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Daughter of a Song: A MemoirBorn in a Dust Bowl dugout on the hard, flat plainsoutside Lubbock, Texas, Sonny Curtis picked cotton as a kid, formed a band withhis high school friend Buddy Holly, and opened shows for Elvis--and that wasjust by the age of twenty-two. Now at the...
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